Provifo about their faid Laws.

Infringers of

and bosv..

So always, that the faid Laws, Ordinances, Statutes, or any of them be not contrary or repugnant to the Laws, Statutes, Rights or Cuftoms of this our Realm of England, or Derogatory to the Jurifdiction and Preheminence of the Lord High Admiral of England, for the Time being, or to the Court of Admiralty of England, or to the Judge, Regiter, or Marfbal of that Court for the Time being, or any of them.

AND whofoever against the faid Laws and to Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, fhall in be punished, any part offend, or fhall violate, or break any of them, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid Mafter, Wardens, Affiftants, and Elder Brethren, or the greater Part of them, their Succeffors and Deputies aforefaid (whereof the faid Mafter, or Master's Deputy to be always one) in their Difcretions, according to the greatnefs and quality of the Fault, to punish and correct; and the Pains, Penalties, Amerciaments, and Forfeitures, or any of them, in the faid Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, or any of them to be appointed and fpecified, of the Offenders, and every of them to afk, levy,

gather,

gather, and receive; and for the fame, if need fo be, the faid Offender and Offenders, as well by his and their Goods and Ships, or either of them, as by his or their Bodies (as the Cafe fhall require) according to the Laws and Cuf toms of this our Realm of England, or our Court of Admiralty, to deftrain and arrest, and by their own Officer for that Purpose to be appointed (if they shall so think it meet) to commit to Ward, there to remain, until the fame Pains, Amérciaments, and Forfeitures, with the Charges of the Imprisonment be fully answered, fatisfied, and paid, to the Ufe and Benefit of the faid Corporation; and also the fame Parties, Offenders, and every of them, to release and set free again, as to the faid Mafter, Wardens, Afiftants, and Elder Brethren, and Deputies, aforefaid, or the greater Part of them for the Time being, in that behalf shall feem expedient.

AND that all and fingular Sum and Uses of their Sums of Money, whatfoever, due or Monies, arihereafter to be due, and received by fang from Fines, Forfei the faid Decrees, Orders, Agreements, Fines, tures, &c. Forfeitures, or otherwife, fhall be to the Ufe, Commodity, and Profit of the said

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Guild,

Repair of their Houfes,

and AlmsHoujes.

Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, unto and for the repairing of a certain House, or Tenement, commonly called or known by the Name of Trinity-House; and of other Tenements and Alms-Houfes, fituate and being in Deptford-Strond, aforefaid, and Upper Deptford, in the faid County of Kent, belonging to the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood; and for the Relief of poor finding of certain poor Perfons, Brethren, Brothers, and and the Wives of Brethren, of the faid their Widows. Guild Fraternity, or Brotherhood, which are fallen into Decay, Mifery, Poverty, and Need, or hereafter fhall fortune to fall into Decay, Mifery, Poverty, and Need; and alfo for Relief of other poor General Cha- Mariners and Seafaring-Men, fuch as by them, and their Succeffors, fhall be thought meet and neceffary therewith to be relieved; and for other publick Uses of the faid Society.

rities.

To bold and

Revenue

without Account.

WHICH Sum and Sums of Money fo difpofe of their received, and to be received to the Ufe of the faid Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood, it shall and may be lawful to, and for the faid Mafter, Wardens, and Affiftants, their Succeffors and Deputies, to hold, poffefs, and enjoy, for ever, to the Ufe aforefaid, without any Accompt

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or other Thing, therefore to Us, our Heirs and Succeffors, to be yielded, paid, rendered, made, or done, in that behalf, and without any moleftation or trouble thro' any invented Colour and Device, by any Perfon or Perfons, either of the faid Trinity Houfe of Deptford-Strond, or of any other Place or Places, to be attempted, practifed, or put in Ure againft the faid Mafter, Wardens, and Affiftants, Succeffors and Deputies, or any of them, by any Means whatfoever, for and concerning the fame.

Fines, &c. to

on a Condition

ALL and fingular which Laws, Conftitutions, Orders, and Ordinances as aforefaid to be made, We will to be duly obferved and kept, under the Pains and Penalties therein to be contained; fo always, as the faid Laws, Conftitutions, Their Laws, Orders, and Ordinances, Imprisonments, be binding,upFines, and Amerciaments, be reasonable, and not contrary or repugnant to the Laws, Statutes, or Cuftoms of this our Realm; nor Derogatory to the Jurifdiction or Preheminence of the Lord High Admiral of England for the Time being, or to the High Court of Admiralty of England for the Time being, or to the Judge, Register, or Marfbal of that Court for the Time being, or any of them.

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Six Months

miffion.

PROVIDED always, That if any MafAbfence (fa- ter, Wardens, Affiftant, or Elder Brother, ving for Sick- fhall upon any Pretence whatsoever, exnefs) to be pu nifhed by dif- cept Sickness, (whereof good Proof by Oath is to be made) fail to give his Attendance at any of the Courts fummoned or other usual Meetings of the Corporation, for the space of Six Months together, he fhall be difplaced and dismissed by the Corporation, or major Part of them, from being an Elder Brother; and the Mafter, Wardens, Affiftants, and Elder Brethren, of the Guild, Fraternity, or Brotherhood aforefaid, or the major Part of them, as aforefaid, fhall proceed to the Election of fome other fit Perfon or Perfons, in the Room of him or them so removed.

The Oaths

the Master

AND further, We Will, and by these and Subfcrip- Prefents do hereby charge and comtion enjoin'd mand, that the Master by these Presents herein before named and conftituted, before he be admitted unto his said Office, shall take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the Oath prescribed and mentioned in the Act for the well governing and regulating of Corporations, made in the thirteenth Year of the Reign

of